Quotes By Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.